SON’S SEVERE ACTION
MOTHER MADE BANKRUPT SEQUEL TO FAMILY DISPUTE “It seems a dreadful thing,” said the Chief Justice, Sir James IMair, when Walter Charles Clifford, carter, applied in the Brisbane Supreme Court recently for a sequestration order against the estate of his mother, Lena Elizabeth Clifford. The amount of the debt was £556.
Mr. P. E. Copley, counsel for the son, said that both he and the solicitor had had misgivings about accepting the case.
The Chief Justice : The petitioner is actually making his mother bankrupt. Mr. Copley said he recognised that it was very undesirable for a son to take such action against his mother. The petitioner had advanced the money to give the mother a home, hut other members of the family were receiving benefits from his generosity to which he considered they were not entitled. The Chief Justice: Then it is a family feud ?
Mr. Copley said it was more than that. The mother was originally prepared to sign a mortgage, hut she had not done so. The Chief Justice: Was the £556 lent unsecured in one sum?
Mr. Copley: Yes, to pay a deposit on the home and to pay other debts for the mother at the time.
In granting the sequestration order, the Chief Justice said-: “I have to do my duty under the Bankruptcy Act, but I urge the son to avoid if possible taking extreme or drastic action on this order.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18297, 16 January 1934, Page 5
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